Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and methods for generating and editing digital documents, and applying electronic signatures to the documents. The system further performs forensic operations on digital documents for determining the authenticity of the document data or metadata and validating the status of document. The forensic operations may include, for example, security operations, audit trail analysis, and authenticity/verification analysis, which the system performs on an input document being scrutinized for authenticity and a master digital document purportedly corresponding to the input digital document. The system may apply a machine-learning architecture to identify discrepancies otherwise imperceptible to humans or to speed the review process. The system may generate a report for the user who submitted the forensics request indicating the results of the forensic operations. The available forensics operations and level of information about the master digital document are tailored to permissions afforded to the submitting-user.